Carrot

Daddy is doing fieldwork for the latter half of July, which makes doing outdoor activities a bit more of a challenge for Mommy and the girls. Nonetheless, Mommy and the girls had a successful dipnetting trip to the Kenai River. We met up with two other moms with kids (and a puppy!). All the mommies got a lot of salmon. We camped overnight and headed back in the morning. Ava donned her waders and tried her hand with the dipnet in the river, but it was before the fish were really coming in droves, so she tired of it (and got water in her waders). Mommy doesn't have many pictures because she was busy dipnetting and otherwise cold, wet, and covered in sand and salmon. I did snap a picture of the chaos on the beach when we arrived--there was a bouncy castle for kids and a church distributing free hot dogs. Our kids joined the roving band of feral children, dug massive sand pits, fed themselves from pizza that the mommies brought, and joined various campfires along the beach while the mommies acquired and dealt with fish. AVa and Rosemary each came back with a bad cold (not cold or flu--got tested) from their California visit, which they gave to Mommy. Mommy was suffering from that cold while fishing and processing fish at home. Huzzah!

While Ava was finishing her visit in CA, Rosemary and Mommy joined a group of families for a lovely hike to Portage Lake via the Portage Pass trail in Whittier. Photos here. 

Dinner downtown

Ava finished her visit to grandparents and Aunt Laura, Uncle Jerico, and new baby Henry in CA